04/07/2011 World News Today

Mississippi is BBC World News Today with any Tim Willcox. -- this is.

No, I am not going to listen to this. Could security police escort

Mr Mladic out of the court. And agree, defiant and refusing to

enter a plea. We report from the largest refugee camp in the world.

And what dangers ahead for the Amazon rainforest. Read in agreed

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This is the military lawyer that represented him in Belgrade. The

court is still examining them eligibility. This allowed Mr Milap

it to say he would not take part in the proceedings until the defence

team is changed. The you are I am not going to listen to this at

all. Without my lawyer, I am not going to listen any more. You are

talking in vain. By are not going to listen to anything. The court

orders that you will be removed We adjourn for a moment, canoe and

The chamber enters a plea of not guilty on behalf of the Mr Mladic.

If he had hoped to delay the proceedings, he did not manage it.

The judge entered not guilty pleas on his behalf.

Let speak now to the former un war crimes of charge Geoffrey Robertson.

We have seen these antics before. What will happen next?

The Today was a good example. The The Today was a good example. The

court is gaining strength. -- today. They will not put up with him at

shouting and making jesters as -- gestures as Ratko Mladic did. This

court will not put up with those antics, and quite rightly, when the

defendant was like this. It sent him downstairs. He does not have

legal advice yet. He wants a particular individual. -- legal

counsel. He is entitled to legal counsel of his choice, as long as

the lawyer is capable and also in good standing with his local bar.

What is happening is the Registrar of the court, an experienced lawyer,

is checking out and then Russian lawyer he has nominated. Indeed,

one would have thought that the event could have been avoided if

they had postponed it for a week. Anyway, it has been entered, not

guilty, and once it -- the lawyer checks out, if he is in good

standing and capable, he will represent him. Of course, if he is

no good, the court could, not impose council on him, but do what

they did before and a. What is called a friend of the court,

usually a distinguished QC to argue his points of law on his behalf.

he did not want to appear at the tribunal, could they impose...

Could they forced him to listen to the evidence?

This is much debated. In my view, they cannot. Longer go, the Chicago

conspiracy Trial when one defendant was bound and gagged. He was a

forced, in that way, to listen to the evidence against him. And

international courts cannot humiliate defendants if they do not

want to face the evidence against them. They are entitled to go

downstairs. But, at all costs, the trial must go on. And the

misbehaviour and delaying tactics of defendants can no longer be put

up with. Thank you for talking to With the case against him in the

you -- in New York on -- unravelling, Dominic Strauss-Kahn

faces a more allegations. A French writer said he attempted to rape

her in 2003. We can go to Paris has been to our correspondent. The

latest charge against him, which presumably complicate any political

attempt to at some sort of government or presidential position

even more? The timing is fascinating. Over the weekend we

had a snap poll as to what French people think and whether they could

contemplate a scenario when he would come back into French

politics. 49% said they could. The figures are stronger among the

Socialists, 60%. We have heard from the Socialist Party and there has

been relief expressed that the cases on the verge of collapse.

This is a different case to the one in New York. This involves a woman

within the circle of the family, known to his daughter and the god-

daughter of his second wife. In that sense, she has a different

profile to the chambermaid in New York. The attack allegations go

back to 2002. The prosecutors will look at it over the next couple of

weeks and asked why she did not come back sooner.

The statute allows a case to be brought within ten years and she

has made the allegations before. You yes, she is inside it because I

should correct myself, it is 2003. She made the allegations before on

a programme in 2007, a chat show, a bizarre programme. The editors

believed about his own name but it was an open secret in French

society that the man she alleged who attempted to rape her up was

Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The allegations have been sitting there.

She came out of the woodwork just after his arrest. There was a

question about why she did not proceed then. The lawyer said he

held off because he could not see a scenario where the two trials would

run concurrently. Now, if this ends in New York, they want to press

ahead. Thank you.

We can look at some of the other news. Syrian security forces have

moved into the city of Hama to try to reassert control. It comes after

a huge demonstration against President Assad. Residents say

police and soldiers were fighting running battles with protesters.

Hugo Chavez has returned home from Cuba to Venezuela after admitting

he had treatment for cancer. He spent almost a month in Cuba way

had a cancerous tumour removed. A A British soldier who went missing

from his base in Afghanistan has been found dead. He left the base

alone early on Monday morning. His body was discovered after and a

massive search. The United Nations say urgent action is needed to

tackle the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years. 10

million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda

are affected. The threat of famine is forcing thousands to walk to

refugee camps in Kenya. Dadaab camp is a place where life hangs in the

balance. This six-month old is a malnourished and feverish. And this

is a baby who is even weaker. He has malnutrition, diarrhoea and a

chest infection. If he dies, the drought will have killed him. In

2011, once again, this corner of Africa is cursed, teetering on the

brink of disaster. This doctor is fighting a constant battle to save

life and it does not -- he does not always win. They come in very bad

shape. Sometimes the prognosis is poor. Her you do not stop there.

You have to look at the next one -- you do not. You do the best and go

ahead with the next one. the drought is killing livestock. The

animals are the only assets for many. To escape this drought people

macros are pouring into the refugee camp that is the biggest in the

world and getting bigger all the time. The United Nations say this

is not yet a famine, but it could be. They are classifying it as a

humanitarian emergency, a situation they say is deteriorating. It has

not rained properly around the region for two years. These people

are facing their worst drought for decades. Aid workers say they do

now have an earlier warning system to alert the world to impending

famine. The trouble is the world has not been listening.

Aden Duale is the deputy minister for livestock development in Kenya

and represents one of the affected areas. I spoke to him and Matthew

Wingate, and emergencies adviser for Save the children. I asked how

bad the situation was. The drought is very acute. Animals

are dying. There is no water. There is no pasture. The water pans are

dry. There is no pasture for the animals and no food for the people.

There is a huge migration of people to refugee camps and to urban

centres. Children and women. We expect the rain in late October. We

are thinking of the time in between, a drought, which has not been seen

in the past 20 years. The this needs an international

response. Is the international community stepping up to the plate?

It is beginning to. It is happening slowly. We have been responding to

the crisis for many months. We are signalling a trigger to say this

situation is so acute, the international community must scale

up. We are reaching hundreds of thousands of women and children at

the moment, but we must reach millions of children today, and we

will not see the situation improve in months before it gets better.

Time is of the essence. We have been calling for the community to

What are the figures form malnourished children at the

moment? As many as one in four in some places. We see many children

coming into the feeding centres, children who need to go to hospital

to be admitted as in-patients and be treated with therapeutic care.

That situation will only deteriorate unless we can get to

them immediately. It is expensive place to operate, it is very rural,

very diverse in areas, so to get to those places with difficult

infrastructure it takes a massive amount of resources and effort. We

are finding new ways of doing that but the challenge is immediate

right now. The harvest is three months away, is there a risk that

the drought could be, famine as well? Yes, the situation now is

turning to famine. The situation in the next three months is going to

turn into a major humanitarian crisis in the region. A region that

already had its share of conflict and what we are seeing again in

many parts of the pastoral ecosystem in the North and in the

Horn of Africa is that this crisis, this lack of pasture and water, and

the movement taking place is again leading to more conflict among the

pastoral communities. Conflict and insecurity will be the order of the

day in the next three months and you are asking government, as my

colleague said, time is essence. The government were meeting today,

they need to pull their socks up. The international community must

come and save the situation. If you look across the region, across the

pastoral setting up mainly in northern Kenya, the roads are in

bad shape. The environment is in very dire need in terms of the last

three-year as, that you see children and women very vulnerable

along the highways. They are looking for water, so the situation

as we have today, and focusing the next three months, it is a major,

major humanitarian crisis. Matthew, this is exacerbated by conflict in

Somalia and rising food prices. In terms of the number of people who

have actually died as a result of this, do you have any reliable

figures? No, they are extremely difficult to come by, but we know

that this is a very complex crisis. There is a simple solution - we

need to get food, water and urgent health care to the people affected.

The complexities of it, whether that is the conflict, the lack of

infrastructure, or the global food price problems which are

compounding the situation, are very much issues which the international

community is working on. We are working to protect people from the

nutritional final outcomes of these crisis, the final outcome being

death, but the moment now is to reconsider how we act and that is

about a simple solution. Thank you. The European Union says it will

resume emergency food aid to North Korea which is suffering its worst

food crisis in years. An unusually cold winter has devastated recent

harvests, while food aid from China, which has suffered recent droughts

and floods, has also declined. The EU says more than half a million

people are at risk of dying from malnutrition. When she came to

power as Brazil's first female president, Dilma Roussef promised

to prevent any changes in the law that would lead to more

deforestation. Within the next few months, the Brazilian government is

going to have to decide whether to approve proposals to relax the

Forest Code, which is designed to protect the Amazon rain forest.

Farmers and agricultural businesses want to be allowed to cultivate

more of their land, but environmentalists say the code

should be strengthened, not weakened. The lungs of the world,

where millions of trees absorb carbon dioxide and save the planet

from more dramatic changes to weather patterns. The forest is

home to countless unique species of animals and plants, but years of

deforestation have left them vulnerable, as farmers clear the

land to provide pasture for their cattle and to grow valuable cash

crops like soya and corn. The indigenous tribes who live here say

their traditional way of life is under threat. TRANSLATION: Today

everybody is destroying the forest or around, I don't want this. I

told many people that if we destroy the forest, there will be no shade.

There will be a great wind and the ground will overheat. That is my

fear. This gives you a pretty good idea of what deforestation looks

like. Over there, as far as the eye can see, virgin rainforest. But

right here, this road that has been cleared illegally and down there,

cattle grazing. Within the next few years, the cattle may have gone on

this could be used for growing soya. It is corn harvest time now, and

with food prices are at record levels, farmers want to expand to

grow more. The world needs more food, and they are more than happy

to provide it. The Forest Code says that here, close to the Amazon,

farmers can cultivate only 20% of the land they own. The other 80%

has to be left untouched to protect the forest. That is what they want

to change. TRANSLATION: I feel cheated because 80% of my money is

tied up in protecting the environment for the rest of the

world but I don't get anything out of it. Environmentalists want the

laws to be strengthened to protect this, but the government is coming

under enormous pressure from agricultural business interests who

want to be able to develop more of their land. The government says it

will veto any proposal that threatens the rainforest, but the

next few months will be a crucial test - can Brazil really protected

environment? A statue of the former US President

Ronald Reagan has been unveiled outside the American embassy in

London. The three-metre bronze monument is to mark 100 years since

the birth of the man who led the United States since the Cold War.

Just what Londoners were calling out for, another statue of an

American President. But today that is what they got, a 10 ft Ronald

Reagan was unveiled in London. statue of Ronald Reagan is quite

clearly a memorial and a commemoration of the glorious past,

but more importantly it is a call to an even more glorious future.

is the end of a series of events to mark 100 years since Ronald

Reagan's birth. He was like a mountain. If you stand on the

mountain, it doesn't look that impressive, but if you travel away

from the mountain, and turn to look back, you can really see how that

mountain changed the landscape. Missing from the audience, Reagan's

political soulmate Baroness Thatcher. She had hoped to return

but couldn't because of ill-health. There were plenty of other

Conservatives in attendance. I am a big fan of Ronald Reagan. When I

was a very young Conservative, I went to America and witnessed him

winning the election against Jimmy Carter. He has been an inspiration

to anyone on the centre right of politics. It is not all Stars and

Stripes, guessed after the ceremony can enjoy some independence Day

treats like hot dogs, candyfloss and doughnuts.

Bowler hats, blue skies, apples, images that defy logic - Rene

Magritte's pictures can be seen on bedroom walls, CD covers and

adverts but he has not always been taken seriously in the art world.

Now when you exhibition in the Tate in Liverpool has been put on to

show how good the art by the man in the bowler hat really was. The

bowler hats, the apples, and the sense that something is not quite

right. We are in the strange world of Rene Magritte. This one, where

it is daylight at the top, night time at the bottom. And it feels

very, very familiar indeed. These images have been seen all over the

world in all sorts of places. Isn't that right? Yes indeed, it is one

of his best images. It is fascinating because it is so simple.

Perfectly executed. The image appears at first to be normal, but

on closer inspection it is not. It is familiar perhaps because it has

been used as an album cover and it is not the only one. Once you start

looking, Rene Magritte is everywhere. Album covers, Jackson

Browne, many others, endlessly exploited. It is getting quite

boring in the way advertising in particular commercial art is using

Rene Magritte. Adverts for love Rene Magritte. Britain pioneered

strange, funny, intriguing adverts in the 60s and took inspiration

from Rene Magritte. As did the Beatles with Apple Records. However,

the art world was not so keen. art world generally is not good

with levity. Rene Magritte has probably been undone by his

popularity. His used in advertising, and the general sense of liberty in

the work. That is why this exhibition is taking place - his

ideas are everywhere from billboards to children's TV, but

this is a way of honouring just how good the bowler-hatted Belgian

really was. That is it from the programme. Next,

It has been a warm day in the sunshine right across the UK.

Tomorrow the want is limited to eastern part of England, elsewhere

it will be turning cooler. This area of low pressure is pushing

away the high pressure that has given us fine days. This will be

staying for the rest of the week, keeping it unsettled. Tomorrow this

band of rain spread eastwards during the day, behind it showers

will be following. This is the position of the rain at 4 o'clock

in the afternoon. Ahead of that, for eastern counties of England, it

will be even warmer than today. Some places could see 28 degrees

Celsius before the rain comes in for the evening. In the south-west

it will be brightening up in the afternoon, the temperatures will be

much lower than today. In Gloucester, closer to 17, maybe 18

degrees tomorrow afternoon. For Northern Ireland, some afternoon

Sally spells but even here the temperature will be a good five

degrees down on today. That band of rain will start to feed into